M365 Changelog: (Updated) Commercial data protection in Copilot expanding to additional Microsoft 365 and Office 365 licenses

MC710206 – Updating February 27, 2024: The “Commercial data protection for Microsoft Copilot” service plan—which turns commercial data protection on or off in Copilot—is now rolling out for the licenses indicated in the original message below which was sent on January 25, 2024.

To ensure that your organizational data is protected, commercial data protection in Copilot is turned on for your eligible users. Users must sign in to Copilot with their work accounts to receive commercial data protection.

No action is required to keep commercial data protection turned on for your users.

If you would like to turn off commercial data protection, you must disable the service plan. By turning off commercial data protection, your organizational data may be at risk of leaking. Microsoft does not recommend turning off commercial data protection in Copilot.

Help newly eligible users learn to use Copilot by leveraging the adoption kit, which is now available in 9 languages: Adoption kit.   

Starting mid-late February 2024, commercial data protection will be available for users with the following eligible licenses when they are signed in to Copilot with their work account (Microsoft Entra ID):

• Office 365 E5
• Office 365 E3
• Office 365 E1 Plus
• Office 365 E1
• Office 365 F3
• Microsoft 365 F1
• Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
• Microsoft 365 Apps for business
• Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Commercial data protection in Copilot will be available to these users at no additional cost.

The “Commercial data protection for Microsoft Copilot” service plan will also be available to manage commercial data protection in Copilot.

When this will happen:

Timing:

• Mid-late February:
  • Commercial data protection will be available in Copilot for eligible users when they are signed in with their work account. 
  • The “Commercial data protection for Microsoft Copilot” service plan will also be available.

How this will affect your organization:

Your eligible users will be able to access Copilot with commercial data protection from:

• Copilot.microsoft.com desktop/mobile
• Copilot in Bing (bing.com/chat) desktop/mobile
• Copilot in Microsoft Edge desktop/mobile
• Copilot in Windows desktop only where available
• The Copilot, Bing, Microsoft Start, and Microsoft 365 mobile apps.

Eligible users must be signed in to Copilot with their work account (Microsoft Entra ID) to receive commercial data protection.

What you need to do to prepare:

No action is required to keep commercial data protection turned on for your users once it becomes available in mid-late February. Microsoft recommends that your eligible users sign in to Copilot with their work accounts once commercial data protection is available. Adoption materials can be found here: Adoption Kit 

If you would like to turn commercial data protection off, you must disable the service plan. By turning commercial data protection off, your organizational data may be inadvertently leaked. Microsoft does not recommend turning commercial data protection off in Copilot. 

For further details, please see our technical documentation: Copilot documentation.

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